This paper will, in the light of semiotics, explore how Sami Tchak, through an effort to write free of the classical canons, has given freedom of tone as well as the breakdown of structure as an additional element of meaning in La Fête des masques. In this novel, the author …
This paper proposes to highlight the redeemed black identity in the American society. It aims at exposing how Hughes’s « I, Too » and Walker’s « For My People » portray the new Black identity. As poets of the Harlem Renanissance, Margaret Walker and Langston Hughes have felt concerned with awareness raising among the …
Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad (2016) is anarrative that carries the reader to the historical context of the abolitionistmovement of the nineteenth century United States of America. More thantwo (2) centuries after, Whitehead re-imagines this episode of AfricanAmerican history in a skillful readership that deserves critical attention.Why does Whitehead retell …
This article is part of our ongoing Doctoral Thesis. It is an analysis of the translation of three legal and financial texts in Ghana. The main aim of this work is to collect linguistic nuances that occur in the given texts and analyze them through a pragmatic approach. The analysis …
In African literature, the woman is a theme that many writers have discussed from the colonial era to the present day. The woman has always been told by the man and not by the woman herself in many literary works. The status of women has been the subject of many …
In Senegal, the governance and production of public action in child social protection policies are carried out by several actors. This article analyzes the dynamics that exist in this polyarchic governance over these policies. This polyarchic co-production and governance is an arena where confrontations, interactions, struggles, conflicts, competitions among actors …
After being decried as an obstacle to better environmental management, local knowledge has gained importance in global debates on biodiversity since the 1990s. In this perspective, the present work tries to question the peasant knowledge in terms of agroforestry practiced since always by the Agni of Bongouanou. Forest area of …
The purpose of this paper is to critically examine the negative effects of poverty and marginalization inherent in African societies and the necessity to undertake change in order to end up with these plagues. Semiotics and Marxist Approach to literature have been used to scrutinize this study. From the study, …
This study analyzes the perception of users and service providers on the quality of drinking water services in the outlying localities of the commune of Parakou. It shows that, 5% of users surveyed are very satisfied with the water service, 76% are satisfied and 19% are not satisfied. However, users …
The main objective of this paper is to contribute to the advancement of theoretical knowledge and to the improvement of project ownership for sustainability. In particular, it takes a critical look at the factors that limit the performance and sustainability of projects. The focus of our analysis is on the …
